In 1961 Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle, collaborating
on the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, began a
virtual revolution in American cookery. In the years that have passed,
as their book has found its way into almost 700,000 American families,
and as Julia Child has been seen across the country on her French Chef
programs broadcast by Public Television, a whole generation has been
inspired to new standards of culinary accomplishment. The classic Volume
One, acknowledged to be one of the great cookbooks of our time, is now
joined with its sequel, published in 1970 -- a new collection of recipes
from the country kitchens and haute cuisine of France, carefully chosen
and adapted to American requirements by Julia Child and Simone Beck, and
designed both to enlarge the repertoire and bring the reader to a new
level of mastering the art of French cooking.
A gift-boxed set of these classics on French cooking in the hardcover
version.